One of the many games to look forward to on the Switch this year is Samurai Shodown. SNK's latest entry first arrived in June last year on multiple other platforms and followed with a Japan-only Switch release in December.

The game was targeting a Q1 2020 release here in the west, and now Nintendo's official North American website has revealed it'll be arriving next month on 25th February.

SAMURAI SHODOWN has enjoyed worldwide success as a blade-wielding fighting game series since its first release in 1993. 11 years have passed since the last series installment, and it is now time for SAMURAI SHODOWN to return in a brand-new game featuring high-end visuals and gameplay!

This new game takes place one year before the very first installment in the series and will set you back US$49.99 according to the website listing - although it's currently going for the reduced price of $44.99. The game's file size is also listed as 9.4 GB.

Tell us in the comments if you'll be adding this one to your Switch library when it is released next month.

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I'd recommend carefully reading the reviews on this game before you buy it. When it came out for PS4, and instantly ran out and bought it, and kind of regret doing that. In some ways it is pretty good: great moves, good controls, it definitely has the SNK fighter feel to it. But the character roster is REALLY SHORT. And it doesn't offer much to keep you playing unless you just want to fight random people online over and over. I got bored of the game in record time.

Played this on Xbox one. It looks sharp and plays well, but the load times are horrendous! We are talking ps1 era or sega cd load times! Hopefully this is corrected on the switch, but I would urge caution.

Screw February 25th, just got mine today from overseas, of course the only downside to getting this early for my region is that the DLC characters can't be bought and download yet even though they are already shown to be in the game. Damn SNK even with the delay you still want that extra cash do ya? Anyways the game is still fantastic whether you get it for the DLC characters or not.

@Neopolss Nope the load times are still stupidly long on the Switch version as well but considering I got like 10 other systems that had bad load times anyways this I got use to so it's no big deal to me. Of course you had to look at the bright side, at least it's not a lagfest like the awful Google Stadia port which still kept the long load times in addition to lag and latency issues.

Yes there is a Story Mode but unlike other fighting games nowadays Samurai Shodown Story Mode is basically just an Arcade Mode similar to the good old days. There's no character interaction most of the time and you're basically picking a fighter and fight your way to the final boss. The story unfold the same way any other Samurai Shodown game in the arcade did, short cutscenes will play and you get to see an ending of your fighter once you beat the final boss.

@Kilamanjaro If you bought the limited edition Shockbox Gold Edition from pixnlovepublishing.com then you get both the game and the Pocket Color version on physical but if you pre-order the digital version on the eShop you should get the digital version of the Pocket Color game for free once the base game came out. If you're like me and bought the base game physically from Play-Asia, then you're not gonna get the Pocket Color version like at all as they won't email you the code and the Pocket Color version is not available at the eShop.